Talysh (also Talishi, Taleshi or Talyshi) are an Iranian people who speak one of the Northwestern Iranian languages. Talysh is spoken in the northern regions of the Iranian provinces of Gilan and Ardabil and the southern parts of the Republic of Azerbaijan. Northern Talysh (the part in the Republic of Azerbaijan) was historically known as Talish-i Gushtasbi. The Iranian languages are a part of the Indo-European language family with estimated 150-200 million native speakers. ... Guilan (گیلان in Persian) is one of the 30 provinces of Iran, during antique time known as part of Hyrcania, with a population of approximately 2 million and an area of 14,700 sq. ... Ardabil (in persian: اردبیل other name: Ardebil ancient name: Artavil ) a historical city in north-western Iran. ... Talish-i Gushtasbi is the historical name of the northern Talysh area, presently a part of the Republic of Azerbaijan. ...
Talysh has 2 major mutually intelligible dialects — Northern (in Azerbaijan and Iran), and Southern (in Iran), regarded by some linguists as separate languages. There are no statistical data on the numbers of Talysh-speakers, but estimates show their number to be a half million in Iran and one million in the Republic of Azerbaijan, bringing the total number of Talysh-speakers close to 1.5 million people.
The Talysh live in the southernmost tip of Azerbaijan, along the Iranian border, mainly in the district of Lenkoran, Astarin and partly in Lerik and Massallin.
One part of the Talysh of Azerbaijan lives in the mountains, where the climate is dry, the other part lives on the humid subtropical coastal lowlands, which as they extend north, gradually become the dry Mugani Steppe.
In the late 18th century, a Talysh Khanate was established which in 1812 (conclusively in 1828), together with the northern part of Azerbaijan, was annexed to Russia.
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